Parish of Albert

Civil parish in New South Wales, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albert Parish, New South Wales is a remote civil parish of Yantara County near Milparinka, New South Wales.

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Parish of Albert
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Coordinates: 30°06′34″S 142°21′33″E
Country Australia
StateNew South Wales
CountyYantara County
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Map of Yantara County, New South Wales,[1]

The parish is on the Silver City Highway where the road meets Salt Lake, New South Wales. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).[2]

Gold was discovered there,[3] and for a while a village at Albert had a population of 900. but the gold soon ran out and life in the parish is very hard as it is arid and has no reliable fresh water.[4]

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